When trying to launch an application that uses the Enterprise Server I was receiving an error (see attachment). The error started when our organization lost Internet connectivity Saturday morning due to a power outage in our main data center. It's now Sunday, power has been restored, and everything is working normally. This leads me to assume that the ES has a "phone home" feature that checks to see if the license is current. While I can understand the need to protect your intellectual property, I'm not feeling good about building business critical applications that otherwise do not need the Internet that cannot survive a few days without it. Does ES require constant communication home or is there something else going on?

-Larry

Did you receive an email to the address configured in the web.config file?  That email should contain more information and a better stack trace than the one you received.  It does check in with the home server on a regular basis, mainly for expiration purposes since the server is licensed in 1 year increments.  That could be the cause of the problem, if it is throwing an exception, it might be bubbling it up.  I will take a look at the code and see what I can find.

Larry,

We are going to make a change so that this doesn't happen in the future.  It will be included in the next update.  Thanks.